Select two works of art, each by a different artist, and comment on how each artist has responded to the time in which they lived.

Both Cecil Collins (1908-1989) and Julian Trevelyan (1910-1988) and their respective works The Quest (1938) and Rubbish May be Shot Here (1937) respond directly to the period in which they are situated. The archetype of the Pilgrim is exemplified within The Quest. This psychoanalytic and Arthurian figure attempts to embody not only Britain's past history and fantasies but its current political, social and economic dilemmas. The boat, filled with noble knights, lost in a vast and jagged storm, inevitably acts as an analogy for the British spirit, pitted between its chaotic homeland and the ensuing catastrophe's that await on the shores of Europe. Trevelyan's work, Rubbish May be Shot Here, also presents Britain in a great calamity. The sky, caked in a grey and gritty smog, pumped into the atmosphere from chimney's likely established during the industrial revolution, are placed in parallel to newspaper cuttings of the Royal family. With the death of King George IV and abdication of Edward VIII in 1936, Trevelyan illustrates a Britain in decay; politically, environmentally and spiritually.